When Someone Quotes
1299 quotes by 827 authors
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What I bring to the interview is respect. The person recognizes that you respect them because you're listening. Because you're listening, they feel good about…
— Studs Terkel
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I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf…
— John Green
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When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that…
— Frantz Fanon
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And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they'll never stop doing, I think it's FEARLESS to stop believing them. It's FEARLESS to…
— Taylor Swift
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making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry…
— Paulo Coelho
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When someone changes your world, that's when you know he's important to you.
— Tite Kubo
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Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling?…
— Mark Oliver Everett
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There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a…
— Mary Ann Shaffer
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..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.
— Malcolm Gladwell
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When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.
— Mary Higgins Clark
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Mack was getting frustrated. He spoke louder, 'But, don't I have a right to...' To complete a sentence without being interrupted? Not in reality. But…
— William P. Young
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And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies...…
— Terry Pratchett
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The Universe is very, very big. It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules. Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever.…
— Craig Ferguson
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When someone works for less pay than she can live on -- when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike,…
— Aidan Chambers
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That he liked to think of himself as a philosopher. That he questioned all things, even the most simple, to the extent that when someone…
— Nicole Krauss
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You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn…
— Sarah Dessen
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When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard.…
— Jeanne DuPrau
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I have always been accused of taking the things I love - football, of course, but also books and records - much too seriously, and…
— Nick Hornby
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